A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

🧪 By our colleague F. d’Errico: the evolution of cultural transmission over the past 3.3 million years! Outcome of a 4-year project supported by the GPR Human Past and by I. Collage’s yearly visits as a Visiting Scholar shorturl.at/EEK2S @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

🧬 Over 1,000 years of history revealed from 3,000+ burials in Sint-Truiden. Researchers from KU Leuven & global partners uncovered genetic traces of migration, ancestry & the Black Death, powered by VSC 💻 📰 Read more www.vscentrum.be/post/discove... #HPC #DNA #Paleogenomics #Supercomputing

Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Fantastic paper in @science.org today revealing: 1. strong selection for cold tolerance in Beringia 2. gene-flow across the strait around 5ky 3. diversification of S. American lineages into 4 groups ~ 14k-10ky 4. followed by population crash of >40-80%

Had the pleasure of being interviewed by Bas den Hond at @trouw.nl about our preprint on the diffusion of mythological motifs around the world! He did a truly marvellous job, read the full piece here: www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/w...

@heliosdlbs.bsky.social had a poster about this work at #HumanEvo25 - fascinating study 🤩🤩🤩

🚨 New call: FRB-CESAB & HEIRS (w/ PNDB) will fund 4 projects under the IdeaShare & DataShare schemes – incl. one on #Biodiversity & #HumanEvolution. 2 yrs funding | Interdisciplinary teams 🔗 www.icarehb.com/opportunity-... #ResearchFunding

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

This looks useful -- A Dataset on Linguistic Connectivity Across and Within Countries #linguistics #languages www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population https://go.nature.com/3QWkjOV

Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...

fascinating paper, congrats to all the authors! the model they present is full of potential, great prospects indeed

Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Preprint klaxon - and calling all Danes+Brits who are interested in genetics+history - a new preprint led by Xiaolei Zhang in my group with Soren Brunak's group about genetic exchange from 1100 to the present day between UK (Britain)+Denmark. Read on for details www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The lecture was based on this preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... certainly exciting possibilities to understand Neolithic mobility & relationships #archaeology 🏺🧪

New aDNA preprint looking at 5th-7th century CE cemeteries from across present-day southern Germany. Generation-by-generation assimilation of people with diverse ancestries from across Western Eurasia as (presumably) formerly-Romanised populations move and mix. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Forcing authors to edit or retract papers simply because they contain ‘forbidden terms’ is damaging to scientific integrity, says ESHG Read the statement from #eshg:

Our papers, out today in @nature.com, show how ancient DNA from the Eneolithic and Bronze Age steppe points to a North Pontic origin of the Indo-European language family and a Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) origin of Indo-Anatolian (inclusive of the now extinct Anatolian languages). 1/

“The distribution of highly deleterious variants across human ancestry groups”. Preprint with Anastasia Stolyarova and @gcbias.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

2024 was harsh... but we made a thing: BiosS (Bioanthropology of southern south America) is our brand new research group 💪 You can see more details at: idacor.conicet.gov.ar/bioss-sudame... or follow us on IG: @biossud

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Very interesting research on the relationship of cultural and genetic diffusion. Hélios (@heliosdlbs.bsky.social) gave an excellent presentation @icarehb.bsky.social yesterday. I look forward to the final publication.

Worldwide patterns in mythology echo the human expansion out of Africa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634692v1